ICYMI: New @voteblackpac Poll from @cornellbelcher DEBUNKS Claims Of Increasing Black Trump Voters https://t.co/RGKLFjaeaA via #RolandMartinUnfiltered @BlkStarNetwork
— Van Jones (@VanJones68) March 12, 2024
Category: Big Data
What could possibly go wrong?
It’s the beginning of so many sci-fi movies:
"It is especially remarkable, given the pervasive utopianism of the internet’s original architects, just how dystopian those ushering in its next phase seem to be about the very new world they believe they are spawning." https://t.co/SnzsEBqKrC
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 27, 2023
Twitter collapsing
More in today's developing story w/ @josephmenn https://t.co/49Ft7o3qF6
— Cat Zakrzewski (@Cat_Zakrzewski) November 10, 2022
“I think Elon Musk’s technical relationships with other countries is worth being looked at.” – @POTUS
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 9, 2022
Elon Musk cannot handle being properly schooled. A tragedy in three acts: pic.twitter.com/MXSWQPWo2b
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) November 4, 2022
"The Verge reached out to Musk for comment. Twitter no longer has a communications department." https://t.co/TeH7lVlrH9
— Jonquilyn Hill (@jonquilynhill) November 10, 2022
‘Elites’
Also noteworthy: in '20 every data source showed Trump carried ~1/4 of non-white voters w/out college degree while Biden carried ~1/3 of white voters w/out a degree. Yet that leaves Ds as party solely of elites & Rs “multiracial coalition of working-class voters”? By what metric? https://t.co/WTxPH8svvs
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 18, 2022
Dave Pepper explains it all
🚨 🚨
NEW WHITEBOARD
Why are things careening out of control, into extremism and indefensibly bad public outcomes, in state after state?
It’s all about the warped incentives that arise from rigged districts that eliminate accountability
Here’s a simple analogy
WATCH and RT: pic.twitter.com/n6jRbzcNAV
— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) September 13, 2022
Jesus
Some 18 million people across the globe may have died in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — three times the number previously reported by the WHO, according to a new Lancet study. https://t.co/cw1meEfd3R
— DW News (@dwnews) March 19, 2022
Got to admit, it’s getting better
Some hopeful news on the supply chain problem. It appears to be easing some at ports. Sweeper ships and threatened "excessive dwell" fines have helped. It will still take months to iron out fully. But it does appear to be improving slightly, which will help against inflation. https://t.co/yApm1Y3VQa
— Aaron Astor (@AstorAaron) November 22, 2021
WSJ with more on the same. To be sure, we are not out of the woods yet. More covid-related warping can happen. Labor markets are not re-settled yet. But if Asian supply chains and US ports are improving, that will make a big difference.https://t.co/xX60GPpTUU
— Aaron Astor (@AstorAaron) November 22, 2021
Crypto regulation
Let’s also note that the carbon footprint for a single mined bitcoin is 191 tons of carbon dioxide:
Cryptocurrencies should obviously be banned. Let's just stop playing passive aggressive here, crypto is interesting technology used almost entirely by scammers and money launderers. And forcing them to obey the law is the same as banning. https://t.co/R4BzMpAsiS
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/mistertodd/status/1455294115243909121
Oh yeah, that
While we have your attention — just a reminder that Instagram and Facebook (and other Big Tech companies) collect and sell your data to influence, manipulate, and push misinformation on you. It's time to pass a Data Protection Agency. https://t.co/XTNZzmYv18
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) October 4, 2021
Maybe it’s all to distract us from this 1.5B user data leak?https://t.co/HNPMUDQK46
— Jelle Prins (@jelleprins) October 4, 2021
Juiced
The smartphone is "the equivalent of the hypodermic needle for a wired generation."https://t.co/EcrLUgH7nc
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) September 22, 2021